Love who you are,
as you are
✨ COMPASSIONATE INQUIRY WITH FRANCIE LA FLOW
Trauma-informed. Heart-led. Healing-centered.
Calling the Curious, the Courageous, the Healing Ones
It’s time to Love Who You Are, As your Are.
When life feels heavy and the old tools no longer reach the depth of what you’re carrying, Compassionate Inquiry offers another way. This gentle, somatic-based approach helps you feel safe enough to meet yourself with compassion, uncover the roots of your pain, and begin to heal in relationship.
This work isn’t about fixing, it’s about creating space for truth, presence, and wholeness. Together, we explore the patterns and protections that have kept you stuck, so you can feel more connected, regulated, and free to live in resonance.
What is Compassionate Inquiry ?
Compassionate Inquiry is a gentle, somatic-based approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté to help you explore, understand, and transform what’s beneath the surface. Rather than trying to fix or override what you’re feeling, this work creates space for you to meet yourself with curiosity, presence, and compassion.
Through guided exploration, you’ll begin to uncover the patterns, triggers, and protective strategies that keep you stuck, and bring awareness and kindness to the parts of yourself that most need attention.
✨ This work supports:
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Emotional healing — gently processing grief, fear, or old wounds
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Nervous system regulation — finding greater safety and calm in your body
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Integration — weaving insights from plant medicine, retreats, or deep experiences into daily life
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Authentic empowerment — reconnecting with your truth so you can live with more freedom, clarity, and self-acceptance
💗 This journey is for you if:
- Are on a healing path and long for deeper inner connection
- Want to move beyond surface-level coping into embodied truth
- Are ready to gently explore the root of your patterns with curiosity and compassion
- Feel stuck in old stories or limiting beliefs
- Long to feel more self-trust, clarity, and emotional safety in your body
No previous experience is needed. Just bring your willingness to be seen, held and met.
This gentle, somatic-based approach can support you in exploring and transforming:
- Emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or inner numbness
- Patterns of self-sabotage, perfectionism, or people-pleasing
- Childhood wounds, relational trauma, or attachment struggles
- Fear of being seen or using your voice
- Chronic stress, burnout, or stuckness in life or purpose
- Looping and Repetitive thoughts or behaviors that feel hard to shift
✨ What is a Session Like?
Each Compassionate Inquiry session is a gentle, guided process designed to help you slow down, tune in, and uncover what’s happening beneath the surface.
Here’s how a typical session flows:
1. Arrival & Grounding – We’ll begin with a short check-in and a grounding practice to create safety and presence.
2.Exploration – Through compassionate questions and somatic awareness, we’ll gently explore the thoughts, feelings, and body sensations connected to your experience.
3. Insight & Connection – Together, we’ll uncover unconscious patterns or beliefs that may be keeping you stuck, bringing clarity and compassion.
4.Integration – You’ll leave with tools, practices, or reflections to help you integrate the session into your daily life.
💫 Sessions are 60-75 minutes, held online via Zoom (or in person where available). All sessions are confidential, and with your consent may be recorded as part of my Compassionate Inquiry certification process.
Investment
1 Private Session
$150 → $97 ✨
🎁 Special Certification Rate
✔️ 60-minute private 1:1 session with me
✔️ Somatic + nervous system support
✔️ Personalized tools & integration practices to take with you
✔️ Space to explore one theme, challenge, or area of inquiry
Perfect if you’d like to experience Compassionate Inquiry before committing, or need support around one theme or situation.
5-Session Journey
$697 → $444
🎁 Special Certification Rate
✔️ 5 private 1:1 sessions with me (recommended over 5 months)
✔️ Post-session follow-up check-ins
✔️ Personalized tools & resources to reflect, integrate & go deeper
✔️ Somatic + nervous system support
✔️ Integration tools between sessions
A deeper journey of healing and transformation, including: Post-session follow-up check-ins, Personalized tools & resources to reflect, integrate & go deeper, Somatic + nervous system support
🔥 Limited-Time Offer!
Testimonials
Diti S.
I absolutely had a great time. I have done yoga retreats with them twice and both experiences were amazing. It’s been the most memorable and life changing experiences. Francie and Ellanah create a great environment with love and support during the retreat time. If you are even slightly considering it then I would highly recommend to just do it for unforgettable experience.
Jess F.
Its been 3 years since my retreat with Pure Flow yoga, and I still have hopes to get back there. We were so looked after by Francie and the team, and I was amazed by how much my practice and understanding of yoga improved after only a week (I actually loved my time there so much, I extended my trip by a few days!!) The tree house cabins were modest, but absolute bliss the perfect retreat to go with a book or just lay in the hammocks.
The Shala and the whole retreat venue is nestled in the jungle and you feel miles away from everything else. Highly, highly recommend x
Tom H. and Jodie B.
This was without a doubt the best yoga retreat I have ever had the honour of going to. The location is paradise, people amazingly friendly but it is all made magic by the wonderful teachers and the yoga shala. I honestly thought I was in heaven. All of the classes were set at the perfect pace to enable progress, learning and development, as well as cherishing mindfulness through beautifully led meditation. My personal journey was transformational and was an incredible and powerful way to finish what had been a very challenging year.
Margit S.
The best place in the world to practice and explore yoga! I have done several retreats in the beautiful jungel shala, and also a 200h yoga teacher training with Francie and the other amazing teachers.
There is nothing like this place in the world, I recommend anyone to go, no matter if you are new to yoga or a experienced practitioner.
Marie D.
he retreats Pure Flow Yoga offer are the best way to learn yoga, practice or deepen your own knowledge with amazing and beautiful teachers in a little
paradise.
The location is just heaven on earth! Situated in Koh Phangan, by the beach and in the jungle, you will enjoy the beauty of nature everywhere you look at.
The teachers have been training and learning all over the world, they are professionals and offer you a very qualitative experience. Don’t worry if Yoga is new for you, it was new for me and I learned a lot. This part of the island is also home to a community of beautiful people gathering to practice yoga, meditation, music, dance and a lot of other spiritual activities.
Lia B.
Such a beautiful place and amazing teachers…is the perfect place if you want to reset your life, to get some time away for perspective… The practices and the location helps to find yourself on a true level, to experience life and yourself like you did not knew is possible. Sometimes can be out of your comfort zone but then you discover yourself more and more. The yoga hall in the jungle is a true gem and i felt so connected with nature and myself. Cannot recommend more!! For sure i will be back!!! Thank you <3 <3
Charlie W.
I recently finished a 7 Day retreat here and I have to say that my expectations were blown out of the water. I am not overly spiritual or that experience in Yoga but I came on this retreat with an open mind and to say that I was not disappointed would be a catastrophic understatement. This place, the people and the teachers combine into an unstoppable force that I challenge anyone to experience and not leave feeling like a new person both physically and mentally. Thank you Francie and Atira for a truly life enhancing
experience. I can’t wait to come back.
Maury
“Thank you for your service and your attention and your commitment to this process and container.It has been one of the main ingredients for this combustive unraveling in me. You are so special to my journey and I appreciate your support and our contract with all my heart”.
A.L.
“Working with Francie has helped me meet parts of myself I didn’t even realize were silently running the show. Her presence feels deeply safe, intuitive, and loving. For the first time in a long time, I feel seen without judgment — and that’s where my healing began.”
About Your Guide
Francie La Flow
Francie is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher trainer and the inspired founder of the award-winning Pure Flow Yoga School, voted one of the top retreats in the world by The Guardian UK.
She is a passionate and free-spirited yogi, vocal activation guide, musician, mentor, community advocate, teacher, hula hooper, and joy-spreader, dedicated to uplifting and inspiring people from all walks of life to live connected, balanced, and magical lives.
Having organized and led more than 200 retreats for thousands of yogis from around the globe, Francie offers inspiring and playful experiences that weave her love of flow, embodiment, storytelling, music, and dance with her knowledge of mindfulness, meditation, pranayama, energy, anatomy, and yogic philosophy.
Specializing in Flow—Bhakti, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Vocal Flow—Francie shares in-depth instruction on alignment, sequencing, and breath awareness that engages all levels of learning. Her classes create space for deep openings of the heart, body, and mind.
Francie is currently living her dream in the lush, magical beauty of Ubud, Bali.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from McGill University (Canada) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from Queensland University of Technology (Australia). She is also:
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Certified in Compassionate Inquiry (Dr. Gabor Maté’s trauma healing method)
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Registered with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM)
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A 500-Hour E-RYT Yoga Educator with training in somatics, voicework, and nervous system regulation
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Devoted to helping creatives, space-holders, and seekers feel seen, safe, and fully expressed
🎶Listen to Francie’s Music Here.
✨ If this resonates, I’d love to walk beside you
Why This Work Matters to Me
For the past 20 years, I’ve immersed myself in the path of yoga, devotion, and healing — a journey that gifted me tools for self-inquiry, movement, and nervous system regulation. And yet, when I lost everything during the pandemic — my home, my retreat center of 8+ years, my income, my identity — I spiraled into a grief that no amount of yoga or mindfulness could touch.
Despite years of plant medicine, silent retreats, and spiritual practice, I found myself deeply suffering. I felt broken in a way that my existing tools couldn’t hold.
That’s when Compassionate Inquiry entered my life.
This approach offered me something radically different: the ability to meet myself not from a place of fixing or bypassing, but from presence, curiosity, and truth. It helped me move from knowing things intellectually… to actually feeling and integrating them.
Compassionate Inquiry taught me that safety is the prerequisite for healing — and because so much of our wounding happens in relationship, true healing often needs to happen in relationship too.
This work isn’t about revisiting the past for the sake of it. It’s about gently tracing the roots of our present-day pain — the patterns, triggers, and protective strategies that keep us stuck — and bringing compassion, awareness, and loving attention to the places we’ve long exiled.
I’m not sharing this from a pedestal of being “fully healed.” I’m sharing this as someone who is more self-aware, more regulated, and more compassionate with herself than ever before — and who deeply believes in the power of this work to support you, too.
This offering is a continuation of my own journey, and an invitation into yours.
📹 Certification Note
As part of my certification pathway, some sessions may be recorded and shared confidentially for supervision and review. Your privacy and process will always be deeply respected and held with care. These sessions are designed to support profound integration—whether you are navigating deep healing, plant medicine journeys, retreats, or significant life transitions..
Testimonials
Diti S.
I absolutely had a great time. I have done yoga retreats with them twice and both experiences were amazing. It’s been the most memorable and life changing experiences. Francie and Ellanah create a great environment with love and support during the retreat time. If you are even slightly considering it then I would highly recommend to just do it for unforgettable experience.
Jess F.
Its been 3 years since my retreat with Pure Flow yoga, and I still have hopes to get back there. We were so looked after by Francie and the team, and I was amazed by how much my practice and understanding of yoga improved after only a week (I actually loved my time there so much, I extended my trip by a few days!!) The tree house cabins were modest, but absolute bliss the perfect retreat to go with a book or just lay in the hammocks.
The Shala and the whole retreat venue is nestled in the jungle and you feel miles away from everything else. Highly, highly recommend x
Tom H. and Jodie B.
This was without a doubt the best yoga retreat I have ever had the honour of going to. The location is paradise, people amazingly friendly but it is all made magic by the wonderful teachers and the yoga shala. I honestly thought I was in heaven. All of the classes were set at the perfect pace to enable progress, learning and development, as well as cherishing mindfulness through beautifully led meditation. My personal journey was transformational and was an incredible and powerful way to finish what had been a very challenging year.
Margit S.
The best place in the world to practice and explore yoga! I have done several retreats in the beautiful jungel shala, and also a 200h yoga teacher training with Francie and the other amazing teachers.
There is nothing like this place in the world, I recommend anyone to go, no matter if you are new to yoga or a experienced practitioner.
Marie D.
he retreats Pure Flow Yoga offer are the best way to learn yoga, practice or deepen your own knowledge with amazing and beautiful teachers in a little
paradise.
The location is just heaven on earth! Situated in Koh Phangan, by the beach and in the jungle, you will enjoy the beauty of nature everywhere you look at.
The teachers have been training and learning all over the world, they are professionals and offer you a very qualitative experience. Don’t worry if Yoga is new for you, it was new for me and I learned a lot. This part of the island is also home to a community of beautiful people gathering to practice yoga, meditation, music, dance and a lot of other spiritual activities.
Lia B.
Such a beautiful place and amazing teachers…is the perfect place if you want to reset your life, to get some time away for perspective… The practices and the location helps to find yourself on a true level, to experience life and yourself like you did not knew is possible. Sometimes can be out of your comfort zone but then you discover yourself more and more. The yoga hall in the jungle is a true gem and i felt so connected with nature and myself. Cannot recommend more!! For sure i will be back!!! Thank you <3 <3
Charlie W.
I recently finished a 7 Day retreat here and I have to say that my expectations were blown out of the water. I am not overly spiritual or that experience in Yoga but I came on this retreat with an open mind and to say that I was not disappointed would be a catastrophic understatement. This place, the people and the teachers combine into an unstoppable force that I challenge anyone to experience and not leave feeling like a new person both physically and mentally. Thank you Francie and Atira for a truly life enhancing
experience. I can’t wait to come back.
Maury
“Thank you for your service and your attention and your commitment to this process and container.It has been one of the main ingredients for this combustive unraveling in me. You are so special to my journey and I appreciate your support and our contract with all my heart”.
A.L.
“Working with Francie has helped me meet parts of myself I didn’t even realize were silently running the show. Her presence feels deeply safe, intuitive, and loving. For the first time in a long time, I feel seen without judgment — and that’s where my healing began.”
Frequently
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What is Compassionate Inquiry?
Compassionate Inquiry is a gentle, somatic-based, trauma-informed approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté. It helps uncover and release unconscious beliefs and patterns that keep us stuck, so we can reconnect with our authentic self.
How do I know if this is right for me?
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, in transition, or curious to explore what’s beneath recurring patterns, CI can support you. Many people come to sessions for support with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, or simply to reconnect with their inner clarity and truth.
What’s the difference between the 1-session and the 5-session journey?
1 Session ($97 certification rate): A powerful introduction or a focused exploration of one theme.
5 Sessions ($444 certification rate): A deeper journey that builds trust and continuity, allowing meaningful integration and lasting transformatio
Are these therapy sessions?
No. Compassionate Inquiry is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, or medical treatment. It is a complementary, therapeutic approach that blends somatic awareness, presence, and inquiry to support your healing journey.
Will my sessions be confidential?
Yes. All sessions are fully confidential. With your consent, they may be recorded and submitted anonymously as part of my Compassionate Inquiry certification case studies.
How are sessions held?
Sessions are held online via Zoom (or in person if noted). You’ll receive a link and any preparation details after booking.
How long is each session?
Each session is approximately 75 minutes, giving us space to settle, explore, and integrate.
What if I can’t make all the sessions?
The 5-session journey is designed to be flexible. Ideally, sessions are spaced about once a month, but we can work together to find a rhythm that fits your schedule.
Can I start with 1 session and then upgrade to the 5-session package?
Yes! Many people start with a single session to get a feel for the work, and if you decide to continue, we can apply that toward your 5-session journey.
What do I need to prepare for a session?
Simply bring yourself, an open heart, and a quiet, private space where you can speak and feel freely. Having a journal nearby can also be helpful for reflection afterward.
💫 Is This Work Calling You?
Now is the time to listen inward, reclaim your truth, and begin your journey home to yourself.